Direction of threat attention bias predicts treatment outcome in anxious children receiving cognitive-behavioural therapy

Behaviour Research and Therapy

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 428-434

  Waters, Allison M ^a   Mogg, Karin ^b   Bradley, Brendan P ^b  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Attention bias; Cognitive behavioural therapy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE THERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GENERALIZED ANXIETY DISORDER; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOEDUCATION; SCHOOL CHILD; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PHOBIA; THREAT; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANXIETY DISORDERS; ATTENTION; CHILD; COGNITIVE THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PREJUDICE; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84860564107     PISSN: 00057967     EISSN: 1873622X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brat.2012.03.006     Document Type: Article

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